Christ, a Christian organization in Everett,
Pennsylvania, and posted on Facebook back in July.
On Tuesday, the 14-year-old — whose name has not
been released by police — was charged with
desecration of a venerated object, the Smoking Gun
reported. If convicted, he could wind up spending two
years in a juvenile jail, according to Kron 4.
"Desecration" is defined in Pennsyvlania as
""Defacing, damaging, polluting or otherwise,
physically mistreating in a way that the actor knows
will outrage the sensibilities of persons likely to
observe or discover the action."
Patheos.com notes that in Pennsylvania, a
vandalism charge usually carries amaximum penalty
of only one year in jail. JT Eberhard writes:
So let's say an adult (subject to harsher penalties
than minors) elected to spray paint "Jesus loves
dicks" on the side of this boy's school. That guy,
at most (and the "at most" comes in to play for
people with previous criminal records, which this
boy doesn't have), would serve a year in jail – and
that's assuming the cost of having the wall re-
painted exceeds $150, otherwise the penalty
would be less.
But a 14 year-old does something stupid that
causes literally zero property damage and he could
face two years in juvenile jail because it's a
"venerated object"? That's insane. That's really
ludicrous.
The teen's original Facebook post garnered 124
Facebook comments, ranging from "Amazing" and
"this is heaven" to "this is repulsive, even if you don't
believe you could at least have respect for those who
do and those who ARE going to Heaven…you
discusting [sic], disturbed, disrespectful little punk
a*s bitch."
A spokesperson for Love in the Name of Christ told
Raw Story
that the ministry did not ask police to press charges.
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